Noisy operating system user interface
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsDavid P. Vronay, Lili Cheng, Baining Guo, Sean U. Kelly
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Abstract
An operating system shell provides on a display screen a graphical user interface through which a user interacts with the operating system. The operating system shell provides a background noisy display rendered on the display screen in accordance with a background physical lighting model, and an ambient notification rendered over at least a portion of the background noisy display to provide a user notification. The ambient notification is rendered in accordance with an ambient notification physical lighting model that is different from the background physical lighting model.
Claims35
In a computer system having an operating system shell that provides on a display screen a graphical user interface through which a user interacts with the operating system, comprising:
- a background noisy display rendered on the display screen in accordance with a background physical lighting model in which the background noisy display includes a variation over time in the background physical lighting model;
- and
- an ambient notification rendered nonobstructively over at least a portion of the background noisy display to provide a user notification, the ambient notification being rendered in accordance with an ambient notification physical lighting model that is different from the background physical lighting model.
A method for providing on a display screen a graphical user interface through which a user interacts with an operating system, the method comprising:
- rendering a background noisy display rendered on the display screen in accordance with a background physical lighting model in which the background noisy display includes a variation over time in the background physical lighting model;
- and
- rendering an ambient notification rendered nonobstructively over at least a portion of the background noisy display to provide a user notification, the ambient notification being rendered in accordance with an ambient notification physical lighting model that is different from the background physical lighting model.
A computer system that provides on a display screen a graphical user interface through which a user interacts with computer software, comprising:
- a background noisy display rendered on the display screen in accordance with a background physical lighting model in which the background noisy display includes a variation over time in the background physical lighting model;
- and
- an ambient notification rendered nonobstructively over at least a portion of the background noisy display to provide a user notification, the ambient notification being rendered in accordance with an ambient notification physical lighting model that is different from the background physical lighting model.
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